Timeline of the Bible · The Apostles
Paul Sails for Rome
Event · About AD 62–63
The Years
- Began AD 62
- “Paul foreseeing the dammage to come, advised them to winter there”
- Ended AD 63
- “they came to Rhegium, and within one day the South wind blew”
They sailed when the fast was now already past (Acts 27:9), in the autumn the margin dates AD 62, and came to Rome after wintering at Melita (Acts 28:11).
Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed, whose dates were printed in the margins of King James Bibles for two centuries.
